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Eco Towel in a Tin – Lightload Compressed Beach Towel (GALLERY)
Have you ever found yourself going for a drive on a sunny day when the sudden urge to hit the beach strikes you? Or you’ve picked up your lunch and driven to a small park and wished you had a blanket to picnic on?
Then let me introduce you to your new purse must-have, the Lightload compressed beach towel. It’s essentially a towel that’s been jam-packed into a tin can.
The only kicker is that once it’s out, it’s out forever. At $6.50 though, it’s worth it for a day of fun in the su…
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Wal-mart, the world's largest retail, is reaffirming their commitment toward sustainable packaging by applying a scorecard when the buyers are making a purchasing decision. Is this goodbye to packing peanuts?
Finishing the trial phase in 2007, Wal-mart hopes to not only roll back prices, but roll…
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Scorecards to Help Eco Shoppers - Wal-Mart's More Sustainable Packaging
When the most recent Rolling Stones compilation of hits is released as double CD, it will have a shocking effect on the existence of the Swedish company JakeBox, which developed the new innovative CD/DVD packaging with the same name.
The JakeBox is made of 100% paperboard with an ingenious folding …
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Rolling Stones Paper Board CD Case - Eco-Friendly JakeBox
The very first transatlantic voyage via kite-power by a cargo ship has taken place. Leaving from Hamburg Germany to Guanta, Venezuela. The “SkySail” kite is a massive 160 meters in area which will pull the equally massive 132 meter Multi Purpose Heavy Lift Carrier MS “Beluga SkySails”, acros…
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Kite Ship's First Trans Atlantic Voyage - SkySail (Update) (VIDEO)
The greenest way to check in for a flight may also be the most yellow. Madrid wants visitors to know from the moment they land that its citizens are concerned with the environment.
The $7.4 billion Terminal 4 at the Madrid Barajas International Airport has a canopy of wavy bamboo ceilings with bui…
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Eco Check-In – Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas Airport (VIDEO)
In the 21st century we have seen numerous ways to create alternative energies. Some are much more popular than others (Eco Football), but throughout the thought process there seems to be a unique pattern in the sources of renewable energy, most of which are inspired by mother nature.
Piezoelectric…
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Renewable Energy Tech Uses Rain - Piezoelectric
These goblets are as unique as they environmentally friendly, but are they for wine, or are they for beer?
The Beer Bottle Goblets are shaped like wine glasses but constructed out of recycled beer bottles.The bottom of the bottle is removed and placed on top of the opening to create a stand; the d…
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Beer Bottle Goblets - Recycled Sol, Corona & Grolsch (GALLERY)
In a battle to claim title to world's cleanest cities, Paris has come up with a concept for anti-smog architecture.
What looks like the top half of a drinking straw poking out of the water, and a giant white and green football laying on a road is actually a new prototype by architect Vincent Calleb…
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Anti-Smog Architecture in Paris - Vincent Callebaut's Green Innovation Centre (GALLERY)
Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets of wood, metal or even cardboard.
There is a range of home decor items and furnishing availabe in thsi concept, from chairs and stools to entire flat pack houses.
In addition to being clever and aest…
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Ingenious Flat Pack Furniture - Small Space Living Made Eco-Easy (GALLERY)
Trend Hunter covered the launch of Veja in 2006, the first organic sneakers made out from organic cotton from Brazil, natural latex from the Amazon Forest and ecological leather. From that time, an enormous number of brands have followed the lead of ecology to sell more; but Veja has kept true to it…
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Organic Sneakers in Amsterdam - Veja Collection By Christine Phung (GALLERY)
Ann Arbor, Michigan will be the first US city to convert their downtown streetlights to all LED. The city will start installing LED streetlighting in February 2008. The city says they will get a 3.8 year payback from the initial investment and then save money for the long life of the bulbs, which re…
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U.S. City Converts to LED Streetlights - Ann Arbor, Michigan (GALLERY)
Imagine wall art that was eco-friendly, added Mother Nature to your living room and was a constantly changing spectacle, and you will come close to envisioning something like the creative Living Wall Planters.
At $169, they are relatively good priced, especially since they are coupled with the ent…
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Urban Gardens - Living Wall Planters (GALLERY)
For the first time ever, the Super Bowl stadium will use entirely renewable energy for the annual NFL game. Solar, wind, and geothermal will offset greenhouse gases when the Super Bowl XL2 kicks off on February 3rd in Arizona.
"SRP is providing green energy to the stadium for the game, for the NFL…
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Eco Football - Super Bowl to Use Only Renewable Energy
Luxury and beauty can be found in every household, and that is exactly the message behind Mana, a new jewelry line.
Mana Bernandes is a Brazillian jewelry designer behind the Mana line included in the TOUCH online gallery.
This designer brings new meaning to the term creative reuse and recycling…
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Bobby Pin Necklaces & Other Recycled Jewelry - Mana Bernandes
The search for the ultimate eco-friendly transportation continues with the Car-On-A-Stick. Or Largest-Streetlamp-Ever. The idea behind Ross Lovegrove's car is that doubles as a street lamp, so there are no worries about parking. It would be solar powered, voice-activated and carry four people in a b…
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